Re: Unable to trigger Ghost Night?

I'm having this issue as well.
I never have my sims go to bars (The throwing an event with tasks was bad enough for me. Only three people were available and my sim didn't get along with 2 of them. Those same two just ate dinner when called and sat around until it was over like they showed up out of politeness.)
And the ghost night not triggering, (I didn't know about the after 8 pm thing until I googled it. It should be included in the description.), is turning me off to sending my sims to bars and doing events even more.
Now I have to wait until the following Wednesday for the next ghost night because it's already 2 am in my game and he needs to go home to his son who is home alone.

@simgirl542 Did you read the two replies I added above to see if any of that information was helpful to what you're seeing in your game? (Responses #2 and #4 on this thread.)

If I were you I would either try recovering back to your last save that was close to Wednesday to re-try on the Wednesday you just tried on, if that doesn't mean losing any important progress &/or time investment in your game, or play through until the next in-game Wednesday, make a save to your game on Wednesday, late afternoon or early evening, then play through, with the things I mentioned above in mind, and see if you can get the ghost to appear and the event task to complete. If it doesn't work, leave your game save without saving, and re-enter at the save point you made before trying (late afternoon/early evening on Wednesday). In the next try, maybe visit a bar (make sure the lot is designated as a bar) in a different world.

Also, click on the event requirements to make sure the task is still showing as incomplete. For me, on one of my attempts I must have had a ghost appear that I didn't see or for whatever reason, and the task did complete on the list. So... when I went back in to try again and finally saw a ghost I didn't see a completion of the task happen because it was already completed. 

Sims 4 Ghost night is just not triggering for the final goal of the reaper event; I have tried multiple bars, always after 8pm on wednesday then even tried other days as well in case it affected it, following many reddit posts with people having the same issue I have tried going with a single sim and groups, buying drinks for them and meals but nothing is triggering the event success. 

I am having the same issue. I used to have mods, but I deleted them because of that. Yet, even though I’m playing fully “vanilla”, it is still showing this same issue… I don’t want to lose the chance to have the other rewards ☹️

@1g333 Did you also delete the localthumbcache file? If not you could try deleting that, then run a game repair, then open the game in a brand new save and try with another sim in that new + vanilla save. If you can trigger the event and get the task checked off in that game it should also be completed once you go back and open your other save.

Also, did you click the event task tab area and see if the task got checked off when one of those ghosts appeared, but you didn't get/see a notice about that? My event task for the ghost/bar checked off during one of my attempts where I did not see a ghost yet. After that I re-tried that night (went back to a save I made before leaving for the bar), and I did see a ghost the next time, but I didn't get any notice that it checked off since it had already done that before. I was more than a little confused. 

Yeah I did exactly those things haha

but it only worked after I went to Oasis Spring bar. All DLCs worlds were not triggering it for some random reason

@1g333  So glad it finally worked! Someone else also mentioned that the Oasis Spring bar is where they did this task. I used the one in Sulani in my testing it. Game-generated sims come and go on these types of lots, it's also possible for it to take a while for the ghost be one of the game-generated sim to appear. The ghost night event goes until 2am, so that gives a number of hours to cycle through sims coming and going if you arrive at about 8pm. Anyway, congratulations! 🙌